{"slug": "pytorch-conference-north-america-2026-keynote-speaker-sessions-announced", "title": "PyTorch Conference North America 2026 Keynote Speaker Sessions Announced", "summary": "PyTorch Conference North America 2026 announced its keynote speaker lineup for the October 20–21 event in San Jose, California, featuring sessions on PyTorch updates, native PyTorch on Trainium, agent workloads, and model customization. Keynote speakers include Mark Collier of the PyTorch Foundation, Alban Desmaison and Edward Yang of Meta, Maen Suleiman of Amazon Web Services, Sara Hooker of Adaption, and others from NVIDIA, Google Cloud, Qualcomm, and Cohere.", "body_md": "The keynote lineup is set for **PyTorch Conference North America 2026**, taking place October 20–21 in San Jose, California. The program includes sessions on PyTorch updates, native PyTorch on Trainium, agent workloads, model customization, open science, and more.\n\nFeatured keynote speakers and their scheduled sessions include:\n\n**Mark Collier, PyTorch Foundation**:*Welcome to PyTorch Conference North America*and*Welcome Back***Alban Desmaison and Edward Yang, Meta**:*PyTorch Updates***Maen Suleiman, Amazon Web Services**:*Sponsored Keynote: Trainium’s Journey to Native PyTorch***Sara Hooker, Adaption**:*Beyond Brute Force: The Era of Adaptive Intelligence.***Jana van Greunen, Meta**:*Sponsored Keynote: PyTorch at Meta – From Internal Workloads to Multi-Silicon Ecosystem***Simon Mo, Inferact**:*Keynote: Simon Mo, Inferact***Brian Stevens, Red Hat**:*Keynote: Brian Stevens, SVP and AI CTO, Red Hat***Ujval Kapasi, NVIDIA**:*Keynote: Ujval Kapasi, VP, AI & HPC Frameworks and Libraries, NVIDIA***Mazin Gilbert, Agentic AI Foundation**:*Keynote: Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director, Agentic AI Foundation***Bill Jia, Google Cloud**:*Workload Fungibility in the Age of Agents***Chris Lattner, Qualcomm**:*Sponsored Keynote: Chris Lattner, EVP of Advanced AI Software and Platforms, Qualcomm***Joelle Pineau, Cohere**:*Open Science and AI Foundation Models: Allies in the Pursuit of Knowledge***Yiwei Song, Crusoe**:*Sponsored Keynote: AI Model Customization Platform***Mark Saroufim, Core Automation**:*Linear Algebra for the Age of Research*\n\nStay tuned for more.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pytorch-conference-north-america-2026-keynote-speaker-sessions-announced", "canonical_source": "https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-conference-north-america-2026-keynote-speaker-sessions-announced/", "published_at": "2026-08-20 20:56:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-20 21:15:26.065154+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "developer-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["PyTorch Conference North America 2026", "PyTorch Foundation", "Meta", "Amazon Web Services", "Adaption", "NVIDIA", "Google Cloud", "Qualcomm"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pytorch-conference-north-america-2026-keynote-speaker-sessions-announced", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pytorch-conference-north-america-2026-keynote-speaker-sessions-announced.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pytorch-conference-north-america-2026-keynote-speaker-sessions-announced.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pytorch-conference-north-america-2026-keynote-speaker-sessions-announced.jsonld"}}